Learning French

[cacheborn]

French pronunciations are still little bit of a problem. I use this service when I am in doubt.

Acapela Text to Speech Demo

[Coccinnelle]

EXERCICES DE GRAMMAIRE ET TESTS


1. http://www.cbc.ca/cestlavie/words/index.html (vocabulaire)

2. Test my French (test de compétence en français)

3. GOETHE TESTS - Language Excercises English Chinese Spanish German French VOCABULARY (tests de vocabulaire)

4. Accord - Exercices autocorrectifs (exercices autocorrectifs de grammaire, de vocabulaire, etc )

5. Le Conjugueur - Exercices (exercices de conjugaison )

6. Podcast français facile - learn french - study french - french listening ( différents types d’exercices avec audio )

7. Grammaire : Testez-vous ! (tests de grammaire)

8. Olyfran (olympiades de français)

9. French-English Quiz - Business ( business vocabulary tests)

10. E. L. Easton - Languages - French (tests et differents types d’exercices )

11. . French Tests and Quizzes tests de grammaire et de vocabulaire)

12. Beginning French Listening Exercises ( exercices de comprehension auditive)

13. French Proficiency Test (tests de grammaire et de vocabulaire )

14. Compréhension écrite et orale (exercices de compréhension écrite et orale)

15. Index de Jaser2 (grammaire et exercices)

16. http://www.languageguide.org/francai...mar/index.html (règles grammaticales)

17. contenu des tests de révision (tests de revision)

18. Français interactif (tests de revision)

19. carte du site | Français interactif ( liste de vocabulaire)

20. index: la grammaire de l'absurde ( Grammaire- règles et exercices )

21. Realfrench.net | French Grammar Games and Vocabulary Exercises (exercices de grammaire)

22. French Online Grammar Quiz ( quizzes de grammaire en ligne)

23. http://www.flale.com/html/accueil.php?action=0 (leçons de grammaire et de vocabulaire )

24. http://www.geocities.com/sohlhaut/FGHOnline.html (grammaire avec explication en anglais)

25. Phonetique voyelles (exercices de Phonétique )

26. BBC - Languages - French - French Steps - Overview (Cours de Français en ligne)

27. Banque de dépannage linguistique - ( La Rédaction Administrative )

28. http://www.butterfly-papillon.com/test.php (Tests de langue)

29. http://www.francparler.org/ (le site des professeurs de francais avec beaucoup d’exercices ))

30. TV5MONDE - quiz : Apprendre le français - Expressions avec les chiffres ! (299 quiz disponibles)

31. LE CIEL exercices pour apprendre à parler français FLE ( bons exercices de grammaire et de vocabulaire y compris des exercices de français des affaires)

32. Exercices pour se préparer aux examens et tests de français FLE : DELF, DALF, DILF, TCF (tests de comprehension écrite et orale)

33. TCF - Accueil (tests de connaissance de français à tous les niveaux )

34. Annuaire formation > Examens (annuaire des sites et des cours gratuits)

35. Site du Français des Affaires et des professions de la CCIP ( Cours de Français des affaires)

36. www.frenchclasses.com/learn/guing/ (La Guinguette – online news site with both transcription and translation( $35 annual subscription )

37. Le Point du FLE - Annuaire du français langue étrangère - Apprendre le français - Learn French - Aprender francés - Französisch lernen (un site excellent pour trouver des ressources gratuites en FLE )

38. Free French Lessons - Learn French at About - How to Speak French - Learn, Speak, Teach French ( online lessons and tips to learn French )

39. Cours et exercices de français gratuits ( Français pour les jeunes)

40. www.connectigramme.com ( tableaux de revision des regles du francais)

41. Le Conjugueur - Toute la conjugaison des verbes (conjuguer un verbe)

42. Le plaisir d'apprendre ( un bon site pour les professeurs de FLE )

43. Hachette Livre - Français langue étrangère ( extraits d’exercices interactifs pour les examens DELF )

44. www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/langstud/ ( exercices de grammaire )

45. Études littéraires ( etude de texts litteraires)

46. Polar FLE - apprendre le français - cours et exercices de français ( cours de français en ligne avec une petite histoire criminelle)

[ZephyrusX]

OMG! I really am going to have the world's largest collect of French resources at this rate! Thanks Coccinnelle!

Cachy: I agree. The pronunciations can be difficult! Thx.

[cacheborn]

Coccinnelle, that is an amazing collection. It will take me at least few weeks to go through that. Thank you so much.

That deserves like 10 reps.

[Coccinnelle]

Bonne chance !

I have more sites if you want but for now I guess that's enough ;-)

[rayton]

I saw you have a lot of recommendations from people over here, but I just had to share the site I'm using for learning french. It teaches you to lisetn to french, learn about the culture, learn the grammar and basically it encompases everything one should learn in a language course in my opinion:

Open Learning Initiative

add french 1, and later on you can add french 2 as well.

[OptimistPrime]

Hehehe, last week I started studying French again (I've been studying it intermittently over the past 10 years), so I decided to do a forums search for language-learning threads. Boy, did I ever hit the jackpot with this one! Thanks to everyone who posted links.

[Carri C]

awesome thread. thanks everyone. french is on my bucket-list too. this way i can start sooner than later! much appreciated.

[ZephyrusX]

Downloading french versions of SNES roms is a good idea! Typically, the reading level isn't that high in older games and I'd be motivated to play.

I'm not sure how fun playing a game on a laptop could be though. I'll actually have to hook up my computer, I suppose.

Originally Posted by OptimistPrime

Hehehe, last week I started studying French again (I've been studying it intermittently over the past 10 years), so I decided to do a forums search for language-learning threads. Boy, did I ever hit the jackpot with this one! Thanks to everyone who posted links.

[Curious cat]

I'm glad i came across this thread. I've been stuck at beginner for years, just picking up language cd's now and then. This has renewed my interest!

[OptimistPrime]

Zephy: Yeah, using games as a language-learning tool was an idea I got from Agota's games thread, actually.

Another novel approach I'm experimenting with this time around is to throw out my perfectionist tendencies and actually set a goal of becoming someone who speaks French badly. (In terms of grammar and vocabulary, that is. I don't mean pronunciation.) I usually get so caught up in wanting to become good at a language, that I end up feeling discouraged if/when I fail to live up to my expectations soon enough, and give up.

I'd rather be someone who speaks bad French than someone who doesn't speak it all, so I decided to set more modest goals for myself this time, and see how that affects my attitude. I've been pleased with the results so far. When I catch myself worrying that I'm not progressing fast enough, I just remind myself what my goal is, and then I don't feel bad anymore because I'm accomplishing it.

[aelle]

Some songs to listen to in French (a small sample). Practice your slang.

Renaud - en cloque (live) - YouTube

Miossec - La Fidélité version '97 par U2byme - YouTube

Henri Salvador - Jardin d'Hiver - YouTube

Au coin du monde. Keren Ann - YouTube

Barbara - Dis, quand reviendras-tu ? - YouTube

Jacques Higelin : Tête en l'air - YouTube

Jacques Dutronc - La Fille Du Père Noël - YouTube

Jacques Brel - "Amsterdam" live - YouTube

Bénabar - Y'a une fille qui habite chez moi (subtitulos) - YouTube

Les Cowboys Fringants "En berne" - YouTube

Michel Polnareff Je suis un homme.mpg - YouTube

Les Rita Mitsouko ~ C'est Comme Ça - YouTube

Thomas Fersen - 2Pieds - YouTube

Oldelaf - Le cafe eng subbed - YouTube

Clarika - T'es beau comme garcon - YouTube

Jeanne Cherhal - Le petit voisin (weboose.com) - YouTube

[cacheborn]

Merci Beaucoup, aelle.

[OptimistPrime]

Thanks, aelle.

Another thing I'm doing this time around (thanks to all the progress I've made with persoinal development ) is being more assertive about what I desire when it comes to language exchanges. I've done language exchanges numerous times in the past, but they rarely satisfied me. Making small talk about how my day went bores me to tears in French as much as it does in English.

So I've decided to be more creative and assertive. This time around, when I contact potential pen-pals on Polyglot (my language exchange website of choice), I'm letting them know right off the bat that I'm looking for someone with whom I can experiment with creative methods, like role-playing and collaborative storytelling. I'm also specifying that I'm looking for someone who has the time to write several short messages every week, as opposed to one long message on the weekend. (Which has been a problem in the past, because I really need to be doing a little French every day.)

So, thanks to everyone on this forum who helped me become more assertive and creative this year.

[loveforum]

Here is another website to meet with people and find language exchange partner. Language Exchange Community

The membership is 100% free which i like )

[roorback]

I am french, so if you still want to learn it i can help you guys, just let me know

French is not difficult you just need practice, practice, practice like books, movies, music, web radio, podcast...

and if you have money and time come in france and visit our beautiful country

[moimoi]

Originally Posted by roorback

I am french, so if you still want to learn it i can help you guys, just let me know

French is not difficult you just need practice, practice, practice like books, movies, music, web radio, podcast...

and if you have money and time come in france and visit our beautiful country

Salut Roorback,

Comment vas-tu?

[moimoi]

Originally Posted by sweety

has anyone tried Rosetta stone? i also want to learn French,i have tried some online sites but seems like the content isn't enough

Hi,

I have Rosetta Stone V3. I bought it years ago. But I just wish to use it to learn French. I just gave it a try a few days ago. It seems to be really cool. Have you got it, too?